Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
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Taking a Chance: The Right Choice in Travel Part III
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 08/17/2007
- Beyond California
Taking a Chance: The Right Choice in Travel Part II
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 08/10/2007
- Beyond California
Taking a Chance: The Right Choice in Travel
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 08/2/2007
- Articles
In travel, there are moments of divine serendipity. Or rather, there can be if we allow them to happen. True, that does require a willingness to venture beyond our normal comfort-zone. But if we do, the rewards can be profound.
My mate and I discovered this in a huge way during our recent European excursion. His business took us to several of the EU’s most famous locales – London, Paris, Amsterdam, and ...Taking a Chance: The Right Choice in Travel
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 08/2/2007
- Beyond California
In travel, there are moments of divine serendipity. Or rather, there can be if we allow them to happen. True, that does require a willingness to venture beyond our normal comfort-zone. But if we do, the rewards can be profound.
My mate and I discovered this in a huge way during our recent European excursion. His business took us to several of the EU’s most famous locales – London, Paris, Amsterdam, and ...Ritz-Carlton Caps “Kitchen” Event With Chef’s Challenge and Grand Tasting
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 11/30/2006
- Features
Mind you, the goat was very much alive. And the ballroom was located in Half Moon Bay’s Ritz-Carlton, one of the Bay Area’s most elegant hotels.
But the sudden appearance of the creature was purely by design. And during the next hour, the standing-room-only crowd witnessed a culinary “Battle of the Sexes” – and, the use of a special ingredient that undoubtedly made everyone’s new four-legged friend proud.
All in the Family for California Winemakers at Fall Tasting
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 01/1/2001
- Features
California wine country. For most, the phrase conjures up images of miles of pastoral vineyards in Napa and Sonoma. But how about Grass Valley? Oakland? Santa Monica? Hopland?
Yes, Virginia, California’s “other” wine country has many offerings worth a second (and a third, and fourth) look. As wine-trade insiders are reminded each year at the Family Winemakers of California (FWC) tasting, there are few areas in the state that do not produce some terrific wines.
No “Chance Remark”: Monterey County’s Winemaking Winners
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 01/1/2001
- Features
It’s every minor-leaguer’s dream: get called up to “the show,” lace up your spikes, and hit it out of the park your first time at bat. For Joel Burnstein and Marilyn Remark of Marilyn Remark Wines, the ballpark was actually the L. A. County Fair. More specifically, the 2003 Wines of the World competition.
“We actually shipped our wine in a bottle with a handwritten mailing label kind of stuck on the front,” recalls Burnstein, still shaking his head at the memory. “We didn’t think much more about it, assuming we wouldn’t exactly be taken seriously with that packaging.”
Médoc Marathon, Part II
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 01/1/2001
- Beyond California
Start Slowly . . . Then Taper Right Off
A typical marathon strategy is as follows: go out slowly, get warmed up, steadily increase your pace, maintain a speed that enables comfortable conversation during the long miles, and save enough energy for one last burst across the finish-line so you don’t look completely horrible.
Médoc Marathon Celebrates Birthday Number 20 In Style
- By Marianne Lucchesi Hamilton
- Published 01/1/2001
- Beyond California
Doug (my husband) and I like wine. A lot. A collection of all manner of “hard” liquors sits, dust-covered and moldering, in our kitchen cabinet. But full wine bottles seem to disappear from our rack with remarkable frequency.